Find light vegetarian recipes.
This is an amazing French dessert called fraisier but in this version the biscuit is made with sponge finger (or lady finger) biscuit and this makes all the difference. It’s filled with a wonderful cream flavored with pistachio paste and of course strawberries! It’s a wonderful dessert coming from the Great Pastry French Chef Christophe Felder!
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Eggs Keftas made with a cream of boiled eggs and dried raisins, onion and pine nuts! It’s really good and so unusual but easy to make for a recipe that comes from the 18th century to our lives today!
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These wonderful keftas are made with a chick peas cream that has spinach and onions and is seasoned with cumin, paprika and turmeric! It’s not very spicy but the spices are there and bring their character and make this dish interesting!
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This is a very simple tahini sauce made with Greek yogurt or fromage blanc for those in France, tahini, parsley and a bit of lemon juice! It’s really simple but so good! It goes well with fried food or with raw vegetables for the apéritif :-)
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A soft and velvety potato puree flavored with garlic, olive oil and red wine vinegar such as the Xérès vinegar! It’s simple amazing!
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A tartare sauce made with Greek yogurt or fromage blanc for those in France, some shallots, capers, and cucumber pickles (cornichons), it’s light and very tasteful as well as powerful!
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The breuil is a cheese that can be found in France at the Pays Basque and the Béarn but in this recipe can be replaced by the Greek myzithra or the Greek anthotyros or even with ricotta! These types of cheese go well with the beetroot and the whole thing goes marvelous with cumin! Try it and see for yourself!
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A rice pudding with soft spices (cardamom, cloves and cinnamon) that is very moist, sweet and tasteful :-) It also has some coconut milk and a little bit of mascarpone to bring everything together marvelously!
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A delicious salad which is very unusual :-) Carrots go very well with coconut syrup and cinnamon, and the white wine balsamic vinegar brings some acidity that is not very intrusive and brings the dish to another level! :-)
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This recipe contains two types of Danish pastry: one in form of a star and with a filling of brown sugar (or rapadura sugar if you can find it), orange and cinnamon, and a second one in form of small snails with a caster sugar filling and some apricot jam on top! Both recipes require your attention and time but the result is so good that it simply worth it!
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